"How does the prince's method of arresting deserters look similar to the method of escaping people back then?"

Zheng Dajin, the governor of Hubei, who had recently been busy preparing for the reorganization of the new army in Hubei, was a leader in Hubei who firmly supported Prince Rui's arrest of the children of the clan who fled north, because the children of the clan represented not only the Aixin Jueluo royal family, but also the basic core of the Qing Dynasty.

The clan is rotten, how can the Qing Dynasty not be rotten?

The phenomenon of escape is extremely bad.

As Prince Rui said, if the clan fled north without asking, how could the Eight Banners and Green Camp be strictly controlled.

The clan refuses to serve the country, and who does the Qing Dynasty refer to?

For this reason, in addition to publishing the "Law on the Special Arrest of Deserters on the Huguang Front" to units at all levels, Governor Zheng also issued a letter in the name of the governor to all prefectures and counties, demanding that all units at all levels actively cooperate with the work of the supervision and arrest department. If the situation is serious, it will be reported to General Wang Xingyuan for re-handling in accordance with the law, and it will not be tolerated.

With the strong support of the governor of Hubei, the tide of deserters was effectively curbed before it completely spread, and it did not spread into an uncontrollable trend.

Gradually, Mr. Zheng noticed that the taste was a little wrong.

It is this special method of arresting deserters and the related measures that support it, how do they look so familiar.

After Wang Shaogong, the prefect of Xiangyang, committed suicide for harboring deserters, Lord Zheng suddenly realized that the method of arresting deserters was not the method of fugitives back then, and the two methods were simply the same.

The so-called fugitive law refers to the fact that in the battle with the Ming Dynasty army, in order to solve the problem of insufficient military resources and insufficient food and salary, the Qing Dynasty broke through the defense line of the Great Wall of the Ming Army again and again and entered the Guannei, and wantonly plundered the elite population of the Han people in Beizhili, Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei, Henan and other places to enrich the Guanwai.

The total number before and after was as high as more than 3 million, and the captive Han Chinese, in addition to farming for Manchuria, were used as slaves with the army to supplement the shortage of military strength in the Eight Banners.

After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, it divided all the fertile fields within 500 miles of Gyeonggi into flag fields, and forced millions of Han people to be serfs under it.

The captives and Han Chinese who had become serfs were not only brutally exploited, but also deprived of personal freedom, and could not even protect their wives and daughters, so they fled to the south in large numbers.

To this end, Dolgon promulgated the Fugitive Law, which not only severely punished the fugitives, but also executed those who harbored fugitive slaves and confiscated their property. Neighbors and local officials are also involved.

Judging from the punishment results alone, the fugitive law and the desertion law are twin brothers.

The enforcement of the Fugitive Law was unprecedentedly strong, and the enforcement of the Fugitive Law was unprecedented.

The difference between the two is that the fugitive law issued by Prince Regent Rui Dolgon was aimed at Han fugitive slaves; The current law of desertion ordered by Prince Yizheng Rui is aimed at Aisin Jueluo.

One is a slave and the other is a master.

"If it is only a strict punishment of those who flee north, the court can still accept it, if it is even the person who harbors and helps, it will implicate everyone, and can help the clan to flee north or a banner person, or a dignitary"

Governor Zheng admired the general Wang, and knew that this young prince was sincere in doing practical things for the Qing Dynasty, but he was worried that if he continued to implement the law of arresting deserters, I am afraid that it would not only make the prince infamous as a wicked man, but also add more enemies to the prince's airspace.

After all, most of the people who fled north were the children of the clan, and there was a lot of energy behind them.

People of insight know that the prince's move is a painful move, but in the eyes of those clans, it is clearly aimed at them.

Speaking of conscience, the title of the general king is already unlucky, and it is difficult to have a good end, if this offends the clan and the dignitaries of Manchuria, the future of Prince Rui is really worrying.

Therefore, Lord Zheng hoped that Ji Shilang, who was acting as a counselor by the side of the prince, would be able to advise one or two.

Without violating the principle of big, is it possible to have some small changes, or small loosening.

At the very least, it should not be implicated too widely, especially for those who harbor the clans that fled from the north, and can be mainly punished with education fines, rather than copying and killing according to the current regulations.

"When Prince Rui led me to the Qing Dynasty to successfully enter China, it relied on strict laws and punishments. Although the situation of the country today is far less bad than the beginning of the country, but the old Chinese saying goes, the troubled times must be re-enshrined in the prince There is a good saying, start from me, start from the small things, start from the side, this sentence is extended, the country's affairs, when starting from the Eight Banners, starting from the clan, starting from the royal family, in this way, the country has a future. ”

Ji Yun didn't raise his eyelids when he spoke, what kind of hanging idea Prince Rui made, he couldn't count it in his heart.

Not to mention that the opening is loose and loose, it would be good to maintain the current law enforcement principles.

Look at it, in the next step, the prince Guan Bao will fully roll out this art of desertion, and it will become a nightmare for all the children of the Eight Banners, including the children of Aixin Jueluo.

"That's the truth, but Master Ji, after all, this law is only promulgated."

According to the principle of the superior law, this law is wrong to some extent, it is illegal, and it is a temporary regulation that has not been sealed by the highest judicial organ of the Qing Dynasty.

Ji Yun said slowly while drinking tea: "Lord Zheng has also thought about the officials, but now it seems that the law of arresting deserters is in line with the spirit of the rule of law in the Qing Dynasty, and there are precedents to follow. ”

Put down the tea bowl and said that when the Holy Ancestor Kangxi Dynasty was in the Dynasty, he changed the three escapees to death and made the poor soldiers of Faning Guta a slave, and then in the 38th year, the military department was abolished to supervise the arrest of the yamen, and the matter of supervising the arrest of fugitives was handled by the criminal department.

During the Yongzheng period, the punishment was gradually reduced. However, the official remembers that in the eighth year of Qianlong, the scholar Xu Benzuo published the "Regulations for Supervision and Arrest", and changed the supervision of Han Nu to the supervision of the arrest of soldiers of the Eight Banners to escape from the flag, which has not been abolished today, so the law on the arrest of deserters promulgated by the prince is consistent with the spirit of the "Regulations on Supervision and Arrest", and if there is any opposition in the court, you can speak in the rules. ”

"Arrest rules?"

Hearing what Ji Shilang said, Governor Zheng also remembered that there is indeed such a rule for supervision, and it is still a national bill approved by the emperor himself.

The reason for the introduction of this bill is that the current emperor was determined to forge ahead after ascending the throne and was bent on rectifying the Eight Banners of Jingying, so some of the Eight Banners of Jingying were moved back to Guanwai or moved to the northwest for reclamation.

In this process, it was boycotted by the Eight Banners of Beijing, and many bannermen who returned to Tun fled in large numbers, which was a very sensational incident.

As a result, the "Regulations on Supervision and Arrest" was changed to focus on the supervision and arrest of fugitives from the Eight Banners.

As a national law, this rule can be used as a superior guiding law for the arrest of deserters, so there is no legal problem at all with the desertion law ordered by Prince Rui in terms of legal procedures.

This is the best annotation that Ji Yun made to the law of desertion after breaking through various laws.

At the same time, Prince Rui, who had just arrived at Tianmen, did not review the new officers and soldiers for the first time, but wrote a poem and then ordered it to be widely promoted in various departments of the Eight Banners.

The title of the poem is "The Song of the Death of the Waves of the Boundless Lake".

Jia Liu instructed: "Use the spear of the Eight Banners to poke the shield of the Eight Banners." ”